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He is also an expert in guerrilla tactics, weapons, and hand-to-hand combat. Rambo is an expert in surviving in dense forests against a large number of enemies due to his experiences in the Vietnam War. He has a high amount of strength and stamina.

Rambo has a muscular physique due to his time as a soldier in the army and his intense training regimen. However, Colonel Samuel Trautman (who was his commanding officer in Vietnam and is probably his only friend) understands him and the pain and torture he has endured in the war and is the only one able to reason with him when he becomes an outlaw after incapacitating police officers in the town of Hope. Due to his violent nature, many civil people tend to fear him. In the next films and novelizations he is displayed as a man who wants to stay away from conflict but is willing to do anything to save his friends and the people he cares about from any danger. He is shown to be prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War. In the novel and first film, Rambo appears as a soldier who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and has difficulty adjusting to normal life. He was granted the first name 'John' as a reference to the song 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again'. His name can be seen on the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington, DC. soldier in Vietnam, but he never returned. Morrell felt that its pronunciation was similar to the surname of Arthur Rimbaud, the title of whose most famous work A Season in Hell, seemed to him 'an apt metaphor for the prisoner-of-war experiences that I imagined Rambo suffering'. Today, many of his descendants can still be found in this region of the US.

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The name Rambo was likely derived from a shortened form of Ramberget (a hill on the Hisingen island in Gothenburg, where Peter Gunnarsson was born) plus 'bo' (meaning 'resident of').

These apples, in turn, were named for Peter Gunnarsson Rambo who sailed from Sweden to America in the 1640s, and soon the name would flourish in New Sweden. Morrell says that in choosing the name Rambo he was inspired by 'the sound of force' in the name of Rambo apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania.

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